To tell you the truth, I don't know. I've seldom owned any guitars, so I'm not practiced at identifying what they are made of. I do know that the instrument feels surprisingly light. If cedar is ligher in weight than spruce, that's probably what it is. Yours is probably an August Pollmann reproduction. In spite of Spaw's dismissive but good-natured remarks about bastardaharps, luthiers have continued to make Pollman copies from time to time.